Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-08-11
THE NEWS.

Many cattle are dying of Texas fever
at New Lexon, Ill.
Thomas Shafer, while working in a
well at Olney, ILL.,, was suffocated to
death.
Mrs. Sarah Brown died at Camden,
O., aged 101. from the effects of the ex-
cessive heat.
Tri-weekly fruit trains are now being
run from Sacramento to Chicago and
New York.
Laura Bait was shot near Cedarville,
o., by Lee Gaylor, while on rabbit hunt
and she will probably die.
A horse owned by John McElfresh, of
Millersburg, o, went crazy from the
effects Of the heat, and had to be shot.
The Wm. Anson Wood Mower and
Reaper Works, of Youngstown, o., have
decided to remove to Chattanooga, Tenn.
James Parker is in Jail at Robinson,
Ind. In quarrel with his wife he
seized their infant child and threw it to
the hogs.
A year old child of John Vaught, at
Science Hill, KY, died from swallowing
some creosote its mother was using for
toothache.
The Democrats of Wood. Seneca, Han
cock and Hardin counties renOminated
Judge Henry W Dodge for the common
pleas court.
Miles Morris was fatally wounded by
the premature discharge of cannon in
IA sham battle at the old soldiers reunion
at Marion, Ind,
Milton j Durham, First Comptroller
of the U 5 Treasury, took an active part
in the election at Dan vile, KY, and
made himself particularly obnoxious.
The Is year old daughter of Frank
Leeper, living near Marion, O., was
burned to death by the explosion of
lamp; also Mrs RuSki. of Fremont, 0.
Daniel Desmond, a clerk for the dry
goods firm of LeBoutiliier Bros, New
York, was arrested, charged with hav-
ing embezzled during the past year
$4,000. ..
Col Edward White Robertson. mem
ber-elect of congress from the eighth
Louisiana district, died at his home in
Baton Rouge Tuesday of last week, of
bronchitis.
Sergt Mason, made famous for having
shot at Guiteau during his trial for the
murder of President Garfield, has be-
come prosperous and very quiet farmt
er in Orange county, Va.
Augustus Dunn professional forger,
who is wanted at PEORIA Ill, and Park
er, Oak, was captured at Minneapolis.
He was previously captured in Texas,
but escaping by jumping.
"Chet" Smith, convicted in Chicago of
betraying young girls into disreputable |
concert halls at Hurley and other towns |
in the Wisconsin pineries, has been sent
to the penitentiary for one year.
According to official reports there |
were 1926 deaths from cholera in Chilli |
during the period from January to June
of this year, and the Government ex>
pended $1.OO7,O0o in fighting the epi>
demic.
Fire destroyed the cabin of Philip
Little, in California Gulch, opposite the
Smelter. Two sleeping ba>
bies were burned to crisp. The father
had gone to his work and the mother
was at neighbor's.
The shortage in the water main fund
of the District of Columbia by misap
plication of money and otherwise, ag
100000 for the past 2 years.
All the Commissioners are appointees
of President Cleveland.
Chief Justice Waite has granted
writ of error to the U S supreme court
in the case of Hugh NJ Brooks convicted
of the murder of Preller, in st. Louis,
and sentenced to be hanged August 26.
This will postpone the execution.
Conrad J Mooney made rash att
tempt to blow up or set fire to the Britt
ish steamer Queen, in New York Bay.
He was successful in setting fire to the
vessel. but the flames were eXtinguished.
He is crazy on the subject of avenging
America for British insults.
The Republican gain in II out of 119
Kentucky counties is 27,1O3. AS the
sections of the state are reported
ratio of gain Increases. The
are that BuekneT's majority
will not exceed 1000 or 5000, against
Proctor Knotts majority of $4,000.
Miss Josie Holmes, late exchange
clerk of the defunct Fidelity National
bank, of Cincinnati, who has been con-
lined in the Hamilton county Jail in de-
fault of bail, has been released on her
own recognizance in consideration of
certain information furnished by her in
regard to transactions of the bank which
the District Attorney desired.